This document outlines a plan for developing self-sustaining village projects to address issues like population growth, resource depletion, and lack of access to necessities. The plan involves establishing villages that can provide housing, electricity, water, food, and jobs through sustainable methods like alternative energy, efficient infrastructure, hydroponic farming, and developing skills for maintenance and commerce. The goal is to create self-sufficient communities through a step-by-step process using appropriate technologies and materials.

1. Self-Sustaining Village Projects
Path to Housing, Water, Food, Electricity, & Jobs
In Self-sufficient Communities

2. Current Conditions
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Exploding Population Growth
2-billion Without Electricity
Food and Water Shortages
Global Housing Deficits
Resource Depletions
Overconsumption
Urban Crowding
Rural Flight

3. Achievable Solutions
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Consider the Planet
Conserve Resources
Sustainable Longevity
Cost/performance rules
Consider holistic impacts
Apply Disaster-resistant Resiliency
Rethink Materials, Systems & Methods

4. Self-sufficiency Paths
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Start with a plan and end result in mind
Establish an industry with good jobs
Add housing, services, & commerce
Build community base amenities
Surround with farms & storage
Achieve self-sufficiency
Create Opportunities

5. Practical Methods
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Pay Living-wages
Train job-related skills
Produce What’s Needed
Organize for Self-sufficiency
Organize Wisely & Tax Fairly
Measure Embodied Energies
Use local materials and labor
Develop Country-relevant Solutions

6. Anchors for Employment
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Encourage Factory Growth
Country Appropriate Products
Educate for Current Technologies
Train Transferrable Skills & Know-how
Organize to Make What is Most Needed
Start by Building Infrastructure & Surrounding
– Homes, Schools, Clinics, Shops, Farms
– Community Centers, & Amenities,

7. Appropriate Technology
• Best-fits for the region
– Materials, methods, systems
• Best-of-breed materials
– Locally available, low cost
• Most achievable methods
– Match outputs to needs
• Greatest sustainable systems
– Use least embodied energy

8. Step-by-step Progression
• Self-sustaining Projects
– Housing
– Food
• Farms, Fisheries, Storage
– Electricity
– Water
– Self-sustaining Communities
– New Commerce

9. Big Business Approach
• Single Employer
– Personnel policies, chain of command, corporate
culture, group mission, brand support, appraisal
measurements,
• Skill development
– Your specialty, working with other specialties,
diverse team performance, metrics, goals, targets,
production, reports,

10. Entrepreneurial Plan
• Multiple-skill Requirements
– Sales, marketing, accounting, advertising,
shipping, receiving, contract law, customer care,
computer software, banking, tax reporting,
inventories, cash management, research, trade
press, news, licensing, chemicals, safety practices,
disposals, literature, printing, public relations,
industry updates, budgeting, reserves,
recordkeeping, government regulations, new
regulations, employee care, payroll,

11. Transferable Skills Training
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Teach required skill basics
Apply to multiple industries
Build leadership by experience
Develop on-the-job hands-on skills
Start living-wages to produce for needs
Create a productive center for new training
– Building, energy, farming, water, commerce

12. Feasibility Study
• Create a Plan
– Objective, goals, tasks
• Identify Potentials
– Costs, difficulty, profits, time, effort, risks
• Research Possibilities
– Place, Laws, suppliers, relationships, competition
• Re-work Plan Feasibility
– Timeline, milestones, begin, monitor

13. Building
• Multi-income designs
– Safety, security, density
• Walk to work & shop layout
– Green-ways, blue-ways, Rest stops
• Markets & Meetings facilities
– Pavilions, kiosks, shops, malls
• Government Uses & Public Places
– Offices, services, schools, clinics, parks

14. Electricity
• Alternative Energy Generation
– Grid, photovoltaic, wind, solar-thermal, mini-grid
• DC Voltage
– Lighting, cooking, fans, pumps, communications
• AC Voltage
– Some appliances, air-conditioning, heating

15. Efficient Appliances
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LED lighting
Pressure demand pumps
Hot-pot slow cookers
Fans
Cell phones

16. Water & Use
• Gray Water
– Watering, Flushing
• Black Water
– Sewer, Septic
• Water Pillow
– Rain Collection
• Filtration
– Sand, Media, Carbon, Polish
• Purification
– UV, Ozone, Reverse Osmosis

17. Commerce
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Pavilions
Kiosks
Shops
Strip Malls
Shopping Centers
Services
Maintenances

18. Hydroponics
• Fish Farming
– Food, sales, export, hobby markets
• Farming
– Drip irrigation, Livestock watering
• Crop storage
– Grains, cash crops,
• Recovery & Recycling
– Earth filtered wells

19. Other Needs
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Government
Meeting
Recreation
Hobby
Sports

20. Rethinking Systems
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Pathways - 5-minute Walks
Greenways Blueways – Streams & ponds
Schools
Training
Clinics

21. Alternative Materials
• Holistic Sustainability
– Embodied Energy
– Cradle to grave
– Cradle to cradle
– Reuse
– Repurpose
– Recycle
• Enrich the World, Don‘t Destroy it

22. Self-Sustaining Village Projects
Path to Housing, Water, Food, Electricity, & Jobs
In Self-sufficient Communities